Heated gear

[rboe]

After reading about some of you folks going for the heated gear I started looking around. First Gear stuff was sold out locally (gee, I wonder why), Gerbing is darn pricy so I checked out CycleGear and their HotWired product. Like Gerbing it has a lifetime warranty. Unlike Gerbing it comes with all the kit to install and get you going (minus the temp controller) whether you get gloves alone, liner or vest or pants.

I went with the glove liners and jacket liner. Instructions suck the big one. Had to go back to the store thinking either the temp controller or the liner was toast. Turns out you need to press the button and HOLD to turn it on/off.

The clerk was knowledgable but did not know really how the controller, liner, gloves thing worked. I had to noodle that out myself (did I say the instructions suck?).

Unlike the gloves, the liners don't have a temp controller, I was told they are hardwired for Medium. It appears to me, with the jacket providing power and fed via the temp controller the best I can get is medium and if I dial down the jacket the gloves will also dial down. Not so good; field testing will confirm.

For less than the price of Honda heated grips I got liners for the gloves (their full gloves were bulky, no armor and online reports suggest not ready for prime time) and a jacket liner. With the extra parts I was able to prep the Griso for use too. So I can use TWO bikes with heated gear! Woot!

Hope to field test over the next few days to see what they do for me.